Nonlinear optical response of molecules rotationally excited by impulsive Raman scattering

Yokoyama, Keiichi  ; Kobayashi, Takanori*

We report a consideration on the non-linear optical response of molecules rotationally excited by impulsive Raman scattering. An ensemble of molecules which are cascadedly excited and de-excited among the rotational levels by a several numbers of Raman transitions is not uniform in spatial coherence and depend on the number of transition the molecule undergoes. Therefore, there is a possibility to obtain signal waveforms which cannot be explained by the conventional analysis method which ignores the non-locality of the density operator. In this study, we adopted non-local density operator to calculate non-linear optical response in such case. As a result, we predicted that significant angular dependence of observed signal appear due to the spherical wave of input pump laser pulse. We qualitatively confirmed the analysis reproduce the observed waveform.